Representing Aurora, Naperville, and Warrenville

Representing Aurora, Naperville, and Warrenville

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immigration

The government is acting in our names. I didn’t vote for him, but it still makes me feel ashamed. We are complicit in this: It has now become apparent that our federal government has perhaps irrevocably destroyed the families of hundreds of asylum seekers by ripping children from their parents, then destroying the […]

Trump has always betrayed those to whom he owes debts, and in Trump’s America so will we all https://t.co/QTnpWVXUoS pic.twitter.com/MLzGX6mnZb — Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 28, 2017 Friday’s cruel and counterproductive “Muslim ban” Executive Order punishes all the wrong people, brings additional suffering to people trying to save their families from terror, […]

…from our friends at TPM (the full text is at the link): Big Things Obama Did In 2014 Despite Republican Stonewalling The 2014 elections were about as brutal for Democrats as they could have imagined. But it wasn’t such a bad year for the party otherwise. President Barack Obama gave […]

EJ Dionne, yesterday. That only a few [Republicans are interested in passing a comprehensive bill] is an obvious sign to the president’s supporters that Obama is right in suspecting that the House GOP would continue to bob and weave to avoid the issue — as it did for the one year, […]

…from the president a little while ago: Right now, I want to tell you why I’m taking action on immigration. There’s no disagreement in Washington that our system is badly broken. That’s why a bipartisan majority in the Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform. That was more than 500 days ago, […]

I continue to be at a loss as to how any decent person, with even the slightest bit of concern for his or her fellow human beings, can choose to align with today’s GOP. Just in the last few months I’ve taken note of these stories (from among many, many […]